I disagree, Bugs are part of the animal kingdom and should stay there, Rats have diseases too should we not consider them animals too?However killing a mosquito is indeed not animal cruelty it’s self-defense that can’t be avoided.
As much as I am for cruelty free, rats decimated my vegetable garden this year. And jeez they are filthy. If I don’t keep the population down they try to get into the house. My terrier is only a recreational rat killer, and the older dog doesn’t allow cats.
It’s a false dichotomy, saying that EITHER we have no obligation to treat animals humanely OR we must refrain from eating meat and squashing mosquitos. They are living, feeling things, but life consumes life at every level. I find it appalling that we torture animals to test hair spray, but I don’t object to testing life-saving drugs on chimpanzees. Conditions in factory farms are disgraceful, so I’ll choose free-range poultry or open-graze beef when I can. It’s often not a question of if or how we kill them, but of what sort of life we allow them to lead before that.
Much rather get the “organic” meats and free range eggs. The animals are treated much better, fed a healthier diet more suited to their ‘natural’ tendancies and no hormones, limited antibiotics.
I’d agree that “catch and release” is pointless and cruel, not a “humane alternative.” Would we consider hunters that shoot a deer, then patch it up with bandages and let it go, to be more humane than those who eat what they shoot?
It’s not the live bait that turns recreational fishing into animal cruelty, it’s the hook. Pogo used to fish without ’em, as it made the pastime more relaxing anyway.
There is a point to limiting the cruelty in many factory farms, but humane means different things to different people. People with outside hunting or working dogs have a close relationship(the dog sure seems happy), but usually are left out in the cold to become climatized – is that cruel?
Years ago I worked with a guy that had fighting pit bulls – going to his home, it was obvious that that pack loved him and he sure seemed to love them. As far as I know, he didn’t fight them past first blood, and had the same dogs for years. I really do not know if it is always as cruel as depicted.
I see on TV that it is cruel to keep a dog alive with a large growth(like a breast that has a tumor). I couldn’t afford the $1000 operation and the vet said to keep her until she was in pain – she lived 4 more years running and playing – So who is the one to say what is cruel? Obviously, not the dog.
I seem to remember that TRADE MARK was started by the Smith bros. of cough drop fame. They would put jars in the stores to sell loose cough drops.The stores would buy other brands and put them in Smiths jar. To stop this they put ther drops in small boxes with a likeness of the Smith Bros. and under there ilkeness they placed there first names TRADE & MARK Smith.
Rodney99 almost 13 years ago
Serious loss of credibility there, guy.
adubman almost 13 years ago
That’s where the original ‘mark’ in ‘trademark’ came from.
Straight from the department, “Do as I say, not as I squash.”
artybee almost 13 years ago
People are at the top of the food chain except for mosquitoes, for which people are food. So it’s okay to smush ’em.
GROG Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I have no problem with that. Die, blood suckers, die!
Good Morning, Fellow Cave Dwellers.
Hunter7 almost 13 years ago
It was a quick and painless death. He was a happy little bloodsucker right up to the end. Never felt a thing. Thus, no cruelty.
mrsullenbeauty almost 13 years ago
@Nabu: Was the “idiot” a younger guy? The mama cougar might like him.
spirit2002 almost 13 years ago
Not too good, she’d eat the prey.
ShadowBeast Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I disagree, Bugs are part of the animal kingdom and should stay there, Rats have diseases too should we not consider them animals too?However killing a mosquito is indeed not animal cruelty it’s self-defense that can’t be avoided.
Nebulous Premium Member almost 13 years ago
The cruelty free way of exterminating a mosquito is by lethal injection.
The problem is getting them to hold still while you stick the IV in them.
thealienalf almost 13 years ago
PETA- People Eating Tasty Animals…now thats something I can relate to!!
andavall almost 13 years ago
Strange… as I was reading this comic, a mosquito landed on the monitor and I squashed it… weird…
Thehag almost 13 years ago
As much as I am for cruelty free, rats decimated my vegetable garden this year. And jeez they are filthy. If I don’t keep the population down they try to get into the house. My terrier is only a recreational rat killer, and the older dog doesn’t allow cats.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 13 years ago
It’s a false dichotomy, saying that EITHER we have no obligation to treat animals humanely OR we must refrain from eating meat and squashing mosquitos. They are living, feeling things, but life consumes life at every level. I find it appalling that we torture animals to test hair spray, but I don’t object to testing life-saving drugs on chimpanzees. Conditions in factory farms are disgraceful, so I’ll choose free-range poultry or open-graze beef when I can. It’s often not a question of if or how we kill them, but of what sort of life we allow them to lead before that.
Hunter7 almost 13 years ago
Much rather get the “organic” meats and free range eggs. The animals are treated much better, fed a healthier diet more suited to their ‘natural’ tendancies and no hormones, limited antibiotics.
momazilla almost 13 years ago
“Catch and reliese” tramatizes the fish, and we should not use live bait. NONSENSE! I’ld say BS but that might offend the Bull.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I’d agree that “catch and release” is pointless and cruel, not a “humane alternative.” Would we consider hunters that shoot a deer, then patch it up with bandages and let it go, to be more humane than those who eat what they shoot?
It’s not the live bait that turns recreational fishing into animal cruelty, it’s the hook. Pogo used to fish without ’em, as it made the pastime more relaxing anyway.
route66paul almost 13 years ago
There is a point to limiting the cruelty in many factory farms, but humane means different things to different people. People with outside hunting or working dogs have a close relationship(the dog sure seems happy), but usually are left out in the cold to become climatized – is that cruel?
Years ago I worked with a guy that had fighting pit bulls – going to his home, it was obvious that that pack loved him and he sure seemed to love them. As far as I know, he didn’t fight them past first blood, and had the same dogs for years. I really do not know if it is always as cruel as depicted.
I see on TV that it is cruel to keep a dog alive with a large growth(like a breast that has a tumor). I couldn’t afford the $1000 operation and the vet said to keep her until she was in pain – she lived 4 more years running and playing – So who is the one to say what is cruel? Obviously, not the dog.
Brother_James437 almost 13 years ago
do unto animals, as you would like them to treat you. But woo unto you insects that bug the snot out of us.We will send you to squashville.
DGWillie almost 13 years ago
I love what I read on the label of a T-Shirt: “These shirts were tested on animals. They didn’t fit.”
iced tea almost 13 years ago
How about people who kill spiders, snakes, and flies because they’re so annoying? Isn’t that animal cruelty,too?
doc white almost 13 years ago
I seem to remember that TRADE MARK was started by the Smith bros. of cough drop fame. They would put jars in the stores to sell loose cough drops.The stores would buy other brands and put them in Smiths jar. To stop this they put ther drops in small boxes with a likeness of the Smith Bros. and under there ilkeness they placed there first names TRADE & MARK Smith.